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Unknown Builder (19??)

First Unitarian Society of Gardner
66 Elm St.
Gardner, MA

Images

1988-09-13 - Sanctuary interior with organ in front. (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
13 stops
12 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996. -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Altered. From Thomas Street Methodist, Worcester. -Database Manager

2008-09-07 - This entry represents the installation of a used instrument from another location. Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Pipe fence facade. Pipes painted blue with gold bands/accents. Great appears to be unaltered, but the Swell has been tonally revised. The Pedal 16' Gedackt is the same as the 16' Bourdon, but on a restricted wind supply to make it softer. Source: extant organ documented September 13, 1988. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist copied from the keydesk September 13, 1988

Gardner, Massachusetts
First Unitarian Society of Gardner

J.W. Steere & Son Organ Co. Opus 502, 1902
Unknown Builder, 19?? - Relocate and install organ from Worcester
Unknown Builder, 19?? - Tonal Changes to Swell


GREAT (Expressive)                           COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   8     Open Diapason              61          Swell to Pedal.
   8     Melodia                    61          Great to Pedal.
   8     Dulciana                   61
   4     Octave                     61          Swell to Great.
   2     Fifteenth                  61

                                             FOOT LEVERS (Unlabeled; l - r) 
SWELL (Expressive)                              Swell Forte – 8,8,8,4,2-2/3,2 [full]
   8     Open Diapason              61
   8     Stopped Diapason           61          Swell Piano – 8' S.D., 8' Sal. [d-a]
   8     Salicional.                61
   4     Flute                      61          Great Forte – 8,8,8,4,2 [full]
   2-2/3 Nazard                     61
   2     Principal                  61          Great Piano – 8' Mel., 8' Dul. [d-a]
         Tremolo.


PEDAL
   16    Bourdon                    30
   16    Gedackt                    --


ACTION: Manual: Mechanical Key & Stop
        Pedal: T-P Key & Stop

VOICES: 12       STOPS: 13       RANKS: 12       PIPES: 689


NOTES
This organ was originally built for the Thomas Street Methodist
Church in Worcester, Mass.
It was moved to Gardner at an unknown date and by an unknown person
or firm. It is also not known if the two tonal changes on the Swell
– the 2-2/3' Nazard and the 2' Principal – were done at the same
time or at a later date and perhaps by yet another unknown person or
firm.

The Pedal 16' Gedackt is the same rank as the 16' Bourdon, but with
the pipes on “soft wind.”

Sources: Parish history; JRS; extant organ

[Received from James R. Stettner 2014-06-05.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#52707†* - J. W. Steere & Son Organ Co. Opus 502 (1902)